Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion
BANGER · Action · 2012
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $19.99.
- Length
- 10.2h
- Value
- $1.96/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 256 MB Video Card w/Pixel Shader 3.0 Support (Radeon X1650 / GeForce, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
Command a space-faring empire in Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, the new stand-alone expansion that combines 4X depth with real-time strategy gameplay.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
March 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $4.99. It has been discounted 111 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 70 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. The nearest things to it, Galactic Civilizations IV ($39.99, scores 25) and Stellaris ($14.99, scores 69), are both worse buys on this math.
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $66.87. It costs $19.99.
Critics scored it 82. Players sit 11 points higher at 93 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts 29 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. 1 of the 486 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 493 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 10.2 hours. Doing everything runs 175, 17 times as long.
The drop-off
30% start to 29% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
280 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Oldy but very goody - tight, polished, intense wargame. Almost no fluff, yet still enough of strategic and tactical depth to keep the player on edge. One more hidden advantage - it's a very portable game as it runs nearly on everything today, so you one can play it on an office-level laptop when travelling.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion scores 92/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/204880/sins-of-a-solar-empire-rebellionThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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